Novel 338: Edward Dutton Cook, Leo (1863)
A man engaged to be married is led into money troubles.
For Cook, see Novels 040, 111, 166, and 262.
The characters are “dashed off with spirit and coloured to the life. . . . This method . . . has a charm of its own. . . . The reader will find this style of storytelling as well and as cleverly executed as can reasonably be desired.” Athenaeum, December 5, 1863.
“Throughout amusing, the story is good, and is well and dramatically told. . . . It paints human nature fairly.” Westminster Review, January, 1864
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